[John Davidson]

Hey Ricwi,

I ran into a similar problem a while back.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=882576

If you have a Kona card, run conflict checker to see if you have a codec conflict. My problem occurred when I thought it would be cool to add the blackmagic codecs to my QT Codec library, which only needed the Kona codecs.

Good luck!

[John Davidson]

Oddly enough, every time I tried to change the clip settings using your described method, it wouldn’t work. These were clips from an older project that were offline and had only 4 channels of audio. I ended up just relogging the 8 tapes and reconnecting the media to the redigitized tapes, so the problem was solved.

I think the thing that was weird to me was that the capture settings selection screen (the screen that comes up after you click ‘batch’) didn’t reflect the changes that I tried to make under the log and capture capture settings tab. I also couldn’t create an easy setup using 4 channels. Try it – there is only one 24bit 8 channel option. There is a pulldown tab to make other selections, but for my Kona 2, there is only one option. I figured a workaround, but it’s a little disconcerting when you only want four channels and it looks like it’s digitizing 8.

Thanks for the advice Jeremy!

[John Davidson]

I think the problem I was having was that you cannot change a preset to 4 channels. When you go to batch digitize, the capture settings declare that you’re about to capture 8 channels at 24 bit.

I changed it under the capture settings in the log and capture dialogue, which worked, but batch preset selection screen still said 8 channels. The final turned out to be four, but it’s a little weird that you can’t change the capture settings, or create a new one, that defaults to 4 channels.

I did read that post, fyi, but for a logged clip that hasn’t been captured, you can’t change the clip settings.

Thanks!

[John Davidson]

I just finished reading “Design Basics Index” by Krause. It’s a decent enough book that explains the how and why (with examples of good and bad).

I’ve been doing this for years and the best way to learn is to copy things you really like. If you learn how to emulate the work you love (the ring in the LOTR trailers, for example), you’ll learn how to infuse your own variations to that work and voila, you’ve created something new that was inspired by work you love.

[John Davidson]

I use cyberduck. it’s free and stupid easy (drag n’ drop).

https://cyberduck.ch/

[John Davidson]

UM. Maybe it’s just me but, I’m not interested in interviewing a film editor who wants to debate the semantics of his self-proclaimed title when I realize he doesn’t know the first thing about working with film. It’s misleading and will do more damage to your goal of getting hired than good.

Sounds high maintinance and most editors aren’t hired for their debate skills. Film editors work with elements those of us in video don’t. Dailies, 24p, Film-to-tape transfer, 2kfiles, working in tandem with lead compositors, fx designers, maya teams, outputting and reference film reels for a final print – anyone hiring a film editor is looking for an expert with serious experience in dealing with these topics.

If you put film editor down, somebody looking to make a video film (which you say you’re experienced at) might think you’re a film editor with the experience above, and assume you’re too expensive. My advice, be honest about who you are and let your reel speak for itself. Sure, you might get an interview at a film house, but it’ll be painfully obvious that you don’t understand film concepts fairly quickly and the interviewer could actually blackball you for wasting their time.

Producers aren’t looking for a master debator. The only people impressed with that title will be people that don’t know anything about it.

[John Davidson]

I’ll probably get yelled at for saying this, but my SD images look fine on this HD monitor coming out of a Kona 2.

https://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?whse=&topnav=&prodid=11042448&ec=BC-EC877-CatHome&pos=13

It’s a 37in Sceptre brand LCD HDTV for $1500.

A while back I had some issues with dancing pixels on HDV footage if you do a search posts with my name, however, a friend with the same monitor told me about a secondary menu option that fixed my issue.

HD footage looks awesome, SD footage (out of the Kona, mind you) looks great, too. I use if for HDV, SD, HD, and even did a slideshow last week for a show being pressed to DVD. SD does not look AS good as a CRT – but it really doens’t look as good on any LCD.

If all you’re doing is slideshows, it’s a solid option. When you’re done you can play XBOX 360, too. Sounds like a win/win to me…

Cheers!
-Neo

[John Davidson]

It messed me up the first time I tried it, too. I found that it helped to completely clean out my render files before some changes could be made.

I don’t do nesting anymore because of it.

[John Davidson]

Searched for Anaglygh and found it. I’m adding this link for future searchers.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=869301

[John Davidson]

I think you’re right about the slomo features Bob. Sometimes I want to change a clips speed without jacking up my whole timeline. It’s weird the way it is now, IMHO, avid’s speed changes are much better (but that’s all!).

That said, I just finished my first 4 camera show yesterday. FCP continues to surprise me. Multipclip was awesome, figuring out the color corrector over 90 minutes time was challenging, but thanks to some helpful cow posts I got through it. It really is an intuitive program.

The things that get on my nerves are:

1. slomo is clunky and it tells me ‘no’ too much. I really miss “fit to fill”. Currently it feels like I’m blind when I try to speed adjust a clip.

2. Managing filters could be a little easier. Especially color correcting. This four camera show was on a live set, where I think the lighting guy had Terets – no camera color correct setting would stay consistant. For a 90 minute show it got REALLY annoying having to double click on each segment. There could be a faster way.

3. Let’s get a real hard limiter on the audio.

4. I’d like to use my scroll mousewheel to zoom in on my playhead. Maybe I can – gotta double check that one.

5. A previous poster in this threat mentioned how Pro level applications don’t want you to bounce around changing settings because that would be inefficient. Dude – what program are you working on? I’m editing on 8bit uncompressed, then I want to use some HDV footage, click on the HDV footage, and oh, I have to go change a setting somewhere if I want to see it. That is pretty inefficient as the program could easily change the view monitor output settings automatically when you switch from HDV, to SD, to DV, to etc. That’s WAY clunky. Easy setups just don’t feel very easy.

If you guys think I’m wrong, please explain to me how I’m wrong so that I can learn from the experience and start being right. I’m 98% thrilled with FCP, there are just some weird things that bug me.

Cheers!
-Neo